One of my top mods is Old World Blues, the effort put into it to expand the existing fallout lore is really impressive

@JaxonHaze1994

6 ай бұрын

Definetly the best mod in my book!

@lolmantuvieja452

6 ай бұрын

true and all of the sub mods that they have i think the best sub mode made its the enclave mod

@johnruta1359

6 ай бұрын

still play the shit our of this mod. just finished an enclave run

@Aaron24371

6 ай бұрын

so true love OWB and can't wait for the chicagoclave

@GreenGocco

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah that is a great one for nostalgia november!

I think it’s worth noting that Washington actually was raised to General of the Armies. This happened 20 years after the end date of the mod, but it is something that did happen. The rank itself basically just means 6 star general, though I think it would have been funnier if they dug him up and put a funny hat on him.

@matthewredacted

6 ай бұрын

I think it also means that if there ever is a six star general ever created, Washington is automatically posthumously raised to be above that rank.

@warlordofbritannia

6 ай бұрын

@@matthewredacted I think that also goes for Grant and Winfield Scott and Black Jack Pershing

@matthewredacted

6 ай бұрын

@warlordofbritannia possibly, although I've never personally heard of them getting that honor. I wouldn't doubt it. Especially for Pershing since he's like the the father of the modern American Army.

@Kandall05161

6 ай бұрын

Once again the U.S. government fails to consider the consequences of their actions smh; the first necromancer will be able to immediately assume full control of the US army (legally speaking).

@R3GARnator

6 ай бұрын

Brrrrrrrt

"Player Led Peace Conferences" is definitely one of my favourite mods, saving us from border-gore since '16

@costarica6712

3 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6OXlNuhY8_Wc5M.html

I think raising Washington to General of the armies was an actual thing they gave him a rank posthumulously and decided noone can ever get the same rank so he was the highest rank officer in America for all time.

@legendphil6232

6 ай бұрын

Didnt Eisenhower have that rank in Ww2? Because of Normandy

@DarthHawthorne

6 ай бұрын

@@legendphil6232 In WW1, General Pershing was given the rank General of the Armies. This was done so that he would be of equal rank with allied Field Marshalls. After the war, people who care about that sort of thing realized that Washington was only General of the Army, means he was of lesser rank. Congress posthumously promoted Washington to General of the Armies with a higher precedence than Pershing. While the President can appoint, and Congress can approve, a General of the Armies it will never happen.

@speedy01247

6 ай бұрын

@@DarthHawthorne I mean Washington will now have seniority on any further generals of the armies.

@HistoryNerd8765

5 ай бұрын

Pretty sure they did that with Ulysses S. Grant too recently.

@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool

5 ай бұрын

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 Please go to a PCA Presbyterian or OPC Presbyterian church, or maybe a Rpcna/Rpc Presbyterian church If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church

The lag problem is impossible to change unless you rewrite the entire cod, which is why I really hope paradox takes their time with hoi5 and fix the late game lag

@blepblops

6 ай бұрын

Never happening lol Why make the game better when you can just sell more dlc?

@azpont7275

6 ай бұрын

Iceland and Britain tried to completely rewrite cod once, it resulted in an almost 20 years long war

@nevuch_yan

6 ай бұрын

@@azpont7275 didn't see that

@nevuch_yan

6 ай бұрын

@@azpont7275 well I'm not changing it after your joke

@kluehouse7316

6 ай бұрын

I doubt it PDX is completely corporate now

One of my favorites is definitely Palpatine's Gamble, I'm not even that huge a fan of star wars, but boy, playing the clone wars is so much fun in hoi

@EEEEEEEE

6 ай бұрын

E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

@giaxo1739

6 ай бұрын

If only they'd ever update it...

@liphrium9858

6 ай бұрын

the best out of all of them is clearly artillery only

I really miss the original HOI4: Zombies mod. It was really fun playing major nations with friends and setting the spawn to random and then the game would be either desperately trying to hold a line or helping out the person doing so. When La Resistance just came out one of my friends figured out you could steal the 'virus' tech and create zombies of your own which led to shenanigans. The mod was also really broken, like zombies had 10000 base HP or org or something, so you had to build insane divisions to counter that.

@acekoala457

5 ай бұрын

Zombies fighting zombies sounds way more interesting than it should

Washington, in fact, di not have wooden teeth. He had ivory teeth, but those turned brown-ish with use, looking like wood. Hence why the myth

Washington's dentures (he had several pairs) were actually composed of teeth from various animals (hippopotamus, walrus, ivory, cow, horse) as well as human teeth.

@botbtquarrel4072

6 ай бұрын

Human teeth taken from the enslaved people he owned, for an extra level of fucked up

You know what I'm really nostalgic for? Hearts of Iron A-Z. You should do all of those again for nostalgia November. Also the rat

@pieceofschmidtgamer

6 ай бұрын

Ah yes! Let's make him experience *T R U E P A I N !*

@RamanNoodles01

6 ай бұрын

Dude it November 30, there is no more Nostalgia November

@germanyballwork5301

6 ай бұрын

​@@RamanNoodles01NOSTALGIA DECEMBER

@lavenderempress

6 ай бұрын

@@RamanNoodles01 dimentia december

One of my favourite mods is The British Empire mod. They add new nations in the British Commonwealth and add updated focus trees to the majors dominions with special events. You can play as Hong Kong, Newfoundland, Egypt and many others.

Damn if only there was a mod to fix america irl 😑

@5-but-3-idiots67

6 ай бұрын

Truly 🤣🤣

@thebigboi3396

6 ай бұрын

​@WeetabixGobbler too bad fdr was a commie

@ortherner

6 ай бұрын

In before a 200 reply long argument inevitably occurs in this comment

@noinfo1018

6 ай бұрын

domestic terrorism mod

@Ben-cx6kt

6 ай бұрын

@@thebigboi3396??

Kairserreich is what kept me coming back in the early days. It provided an alternative to the regular world war 2 narrative where if things went one way or the other it wasn’t in line with any established historical event, just seemed to open the game up more.

One of the mods ive always loved is Equstria At War the ammount of lore in the mod and creativity in the writing is incredible also love Kaiserreich because Ireland was one of the first nations to get a focus tree and its enjoyable to play and explore all the paths as someone from Ireland those two and RT56 (because it always like the default mod everyone plays espically back in the day when many nations didnt have a focus tree and did add a lot to the game and a lot options on what you could do) were always 3 main mods Ive always jumped between

@edmundthespiffing2920

6 ай бұрын

In a live stream, he said he might never play EaW for a KZread video. Mister Gravy Daddy doesn't want to offend a fandom he's not familiar with (or something around thos lines)

@87axal

6 ай бұрын

​@@edmundthespiffing2920 Are there even that many Bronies who also play Hoi4? I've always been under the impression that most people just play EaW because it's a great mod and don't really care about MLP.

@edmundthespiffing2920

6 ай бұрын

@87axal I don't think there is a way to tell. But, knowing how fandoms are with their overzealousness, I think he just wants to preserve the 0.000000001% sanity he has left.

Top mods? Funny enough some of them are Equestira at War and Old World Blues

What I really enjoy about these mods are the leaders that get chosen in the alternate histories, like Charles Edward of Albany. You can really tell that the modders are true history buffs!

@kyle93watson

5 ай бұрын

I figured everyone knew who he was. I guess he's not talked about a lot, but he was part of the English/German royal family Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and sided with the German Empire when WWI broke out then sided with the Third Reich

0:55 I would say Kaiserreich and Great War Redux mod, I always loved the alternate history mods because playing the same countries in practically the same timeline for dozens of hours get boring at some point

@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool

5 ай бұрын

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 Please go to a PCA Presbyterian or OPC Presbyterian church, or maybe a Rpcna/Rpc Presbyterian church If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church.

As someone who did some localization for RT56, id recommend checking out France and looking at its missile tech, theres a little easter egg thats been there for years.

the road to 56 isn’t actually about the game making it to 1956 but to keep being updated until 2056

Arsenal of democracy and darkest hour of course Mr. Timothy.

I hate when November is over because that means that Nostalgia November is over too and one day we wont have it anymore. God I hate how the years have flown by! How is it December already!

owb, pony mod as well, huge lore and that's what i like

You don’t need a mod to fix America. Alf Landon's in the base game.

Road to 56 really made the game feel so good, back in the day. As you could do so much other cool stuff, before focuses and techs were actually good.

Honestly The New Order: Last Days of Europe is one of the best. Just the amount of pure flavor events that are well written are amazing.

@FishwicksREAL

2 ай бұрын

It's the worst gameplay wise

4:19 That was an actual claim argued by the German-American Bund. Even the image there, with the giant banner of Washington, is from the actual 1939 rally held at Madison Square Garden, in NYC

My go to would be TNO only because it shows just how far you can really push the base game in terms of modding and also i enjoyed the writing for a lot of the nations

@dean3327

2 ай бұрын

The problem with TNO is that it's boring AS FUCK, most of the nations with focus trees need to sit around doing nothing for ~30 years until omsk reunifies Russia and starts nuclear war

For the Wooden Teeth bit (I'm sure this has already been answered but here I go) George Washington had dentures where the frame was wooden, but the actual teeth were stolen from slaves (most likely his but there is a non-zero chance he bought some as well).

Here's a George Washington fact: he's officially a six-star general and no one in the American military is allowed to outrank him.

The road to 56 is GREAT if you play vanilla without dlc. It just brings the spice that you wouldn't get without the dlc.

Playing the WW1 redux mod for 20 years dosent make you lag so much you quit, it just makes you bored because at that point you're very OP

there was a mod ages ago called Danzing all night or something like that and it radically changed how hoi played, it was abandoned and was never popular enough to get a redux but I look back on it fondly. It was basically only playable in 2016 iirc as it never updated for together for victory

Memes aside, the US did in fact raise Washington to general of the armies. They also just gave it to Grant too so giving promotions to dead president/generals is starting to become a thing I guess.

TNO- obscenely complicated but amazingly developed

@pocketmarcy6990

6 ай бұрын

There’s controversy surrounding it but I love it

@low-polyhexagonalrat

6 ай бұрын

This. It’s one of the few mods that really delves into the nation side of the game in a pretty unique way. Still kinda sad a lot of their content is getting gutted tho, the last update felt like a step back by removing Britain’s previous content and replacing it with content that isn’t as developed yet.

@krasnamerah1926

6 ай бұрын

​@@pocketmarcy6990, the mod tried to insert every ideology possible there, so no wonder.

@yakir1982

6 ай бұрын

For having a concept that literally contradicts the base game it's quite good

@Grayg

6 ай бұрын

Literally my favourite mod, just waiting for PW update to drop

fun thing with the american civil war that you can do (if they haven't patched it): if you save up enough pp early on, you can actually get off of undisturbed isolation AND disarmed nation during the civil war super quickly. you just gotta save up a shitload of pp early on

Hes trying to distract from the true mission BRING BACK THE RAT

My favorite more recent mod has been North America Divided, and it recently also got an updated giving a few more states and provinces expanded focus-trees!

I haven't been playing Hoi 4 as much as I used to but everytime I do return I end up playing old world blues. I love that it's still be updated

One of my top mods is the Lazytown mod. You retry the Lazytown mod, even if it means rolling back, it was the peak of HOI4 content!

ISP we will never give up GIVE US THE RAT! 🐀

Chaos mod and formible nations. Being able to make a world where nations are roughly equal in strength and can actually expand is my favorite. Sometimes you just get to watch a massive nation form and have to try to figure out how to beat them down but you never know who it will be.

@Generic-ODST

3 ай бұрын

Formable nations and road to 56 are staple mods of every run I do. In the middle of a run now as Latvia where I created the “Baltic Empire” as a formable, subjugated the Soviets, and created the “Global Alliance” to unite the world under one rule. Very fun!

- Road to 56 China is "fun" to play. - Old World Blues is incredibly well done. - Love to play Napoléonic France in Kaiserredux.

Stop teasing us with the man Alf Landon, I cabt handle the Alf unless it's the full episode

If only there was a mod that made isp bring the rat back

Washington actually had lead and horse on the top and slave teeth on the bottom

Washington was a second coming of Jesus, after all. He just swapped out wine for whiskey.

the mod that fixes ironsideproductions so that he can give us the DAMN RAT

@costarica6712

3 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6OXlNuhY8_Wc5M.html

From the start in 2017 I've been looking at country specific flavour mods, and I immediately stumbled upon "Hungarian Flavour" which quickly became my favourite mod. Although the best path to take is obviously to form Austria Hungary, so it wouldn't feel very fresh to play, I just never get tired of it

The desk mod really stood out

4:55 George Washington is actually a 6 star General of the Armies IRL, he's forever the highest ranking person in the US military, he's the American Kim Il Sung.

Old World Blues is a classic and one of my all time favs

I used to use the "Historical Immersion Event Pack" mod a fair bit which as the name entitles, packed in a lot of historical fluff, flavor and events that were and still are missing from the base game. It is an excellent mod if you just want a more historically accurate experience. When it comes to major overhauls, i never really fell in love in any I'd say but the ones i enjoyed to a degree at least are : Kaierreich, it was fine, America was the most fun to play with its crazy civil war. Tried TNO for two runs, was interesting, united Russia under an Anarchist state Buuuuut it does get old fast since majority of the game is just reading pages upon pages of alt. history stories as your eyes bleed from the awful UI colouring, R56 i used a plenty when i just wanted a "HOI 4+" experience when playing small nations that don't have any and probably might never have any actual content in the base game like middle american nations where you can become a banana republic in r56. But mostly, i tend to play just the regular vanilla because i do achievement hunting and even got 100% of them currently but once i am done , i then do just light mods like player lead peace conferences when doing non-iron man.

His "lagged speed" is three times my max speed vanilla 😂

@burgherwithfrenchspies

6 ай бұрын

Btw, a tip that helped me a lot when I had a potato laptop was using the command debug_smooth. It turns off frame smoothing, speeding up the game a lot (but at the cost of your frame rate). I always did everything when I was paused though, so it was fine for me.

@ewenlau727

6 ай бұрын

@@burgherwithfrenchspies the worst thing is I already use it...

@burgherwithfrenchspies

6 ай бұрын

@@ewenlau727 damnnn 😂, know how you feel. Used to have the same problem since I gamed on a $300 laptop, until I thankfully got a new job that paid me more, allowing me to buy a better computer. Best of the luck to your future financial success and HOI4 gaming experience

Definitely tno. It's not really video material but it's very well made and the events are basically a visual novel which I really like

Rip Nostalgia November Looking forward to Demand Dat Rat December Keep up the funny map memes so that Alf is a landin

As someone who didn’t have money to buy the DLCs earlier on, R56 was a life saver for making smaller nations or unique paths playable/available.

I thank you for not bringing the rat back, I feel terrified seeing a BIG RAT in the house, bringing back the rat would trigger my new found fear.

@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree

6 ай бұрын

Honestly, though? Rats make me crazy...

@kingofaragorn5172

6 ай бұрын

@@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree Crazy? I was crazy once 😨

@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree

6 ай бұрын

@@kingofaragorn5172 They put me in a room...

@kingofaragorn5172

6 ай бұрын

@@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree A rubber room...

@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree

6 ай бұрын

@@kingofaragorn5172 A rubber room with rats!

General of the Armies is the highest possible rank in the US military. It’s only ever been achieved twice. Once was to John “Blackjack” Pershing during WW1, and then the title was given posthumously to George Washington in I wanna say the 90s.

something to note rt56 revamps xp. so theres more levels and soldiers can be released with better training depending how full the bar is. lvl 6 is normal training with extra training to level 7 post doployment.otherwise they can be released between lvl 1-5. EAW also uses this system aswell.

4:08 Washington having wooden teeth is part of the American myth. But in reality he used one of his slave’s teeth

ISP says "LAG" I say "THAT*S SMOOTH LIKE MY BUM BROTHER"

I love the "Darkest Hour" mod it is a good balance of realism and nerdy details

Big Timmy playing the same 5 nations every mod be like

When I see a hoi4 vid, I base how soon I look for something else to watch on how fast I find out it has something to do with a mod. You gave it to me in the second word of the title.

another banger ISP!

thank you for posting Mr ISP

One of my most favorite mods was the x10 mod... could get up to a ton of shenanigans with that

Other mods i remember player led peace conferences, infection (zombies), iSorrowproductions mod, millennium dawn, big bite, ragnarok 1937, & Old World Blues

guys i bet he will give us the rat on christmas

One of the most underrated old mods is Portugal++. Stopped getting updated after la resistance but defo give it a shot

LotR was a sick map mod. I didn't stick around to see it get updates after the second or third dlc but I saw Alex give it a go. Maybe you should too lol😂

4:12 Washington did have fake teeth, but they were made of Ivory.

Nice video your content is 🔥

I still think that North America divided is the most underrated mod that HOI4 has ever had, it seriously deserves more love than it gets

8:28 In case you (or anyone else) want to do these focuses again in the future, I had a run similar to this in vanilla. I can't remember if it was Cuba in mine or Mexico, but I declared war on whichever it was who was a faction leader, then declared on everyone who refused me in South America as well as North. I was a bit worried about Brazil, but it was early enough that it didn't have enough factories to be considered a major. I only needed the one country to own both continents. Pretty much the same as you did, but it'll save you another war or two if you care about owning South America.

5:03 George Washington being posthumously promoted is an actual thing that happened, but I don’t know the year. He is always officially the highest ranking American Officer, which is why he is a Six Star General.

I remember being a little timmy, getting home at 17 from school and heading to bed to watch ISP and falling asleep by the end of the video, all the way back when the channel had the big push to get 100k subs, waking up at 6 PM and playing RT56 for 2 hours before going to do something else because I still hadn't reached 1938 on my slow ass PC. Good times. Highschool sucked but the videos were a pretty cool coping mechanism with the pressure.

road to 56 is definitely a top tier mod in my books

I look back on millennium dawn rather fondly, it kinda ship of these theseus'd itself into becoming almost unrecognizable from the olden days. But it's the mod that got me to both buy hoi4 in the first place and subscribe to your channel.

@haulperrel2547

6 ай бұрын

Novum Vexillum. Its MD before MD sucked.

@donpollo3154

6 ай бұрын

Millennium dawn is my favourite mod but damn it can be real painful

been playing since pre-NSB, i mainly play Expanded Hungary, Greece Reworked, RT56, and Empire Mod, but i do play alot of vanilla.

One of my favourites is TWR. Its a bit unfinished, but almost every tree is fun

Man, i really need to jump on Hoi and do mods again. Theiis series has made me miss my high school game.

Old World Blues is great, Metro Genesis is very fun as well, the stations are perfect for encirclements.

My Personal favorite. Most of my hours in Hoi4 are from this mod

I love RT56, I have played it since launch really

My favorite nostalgic mod is Divergencess of Darkness

Every state independent battle royale gotta be up there in terms of that nostalgic suffering

Kaiser reich has always been a fav of mine, downloaded it years ago and sometimes it's feels like a totally different mod these days. still fun to play. also the lazytown mod. ISP needs to return to the lazytown mod 😈

American States Redux is fun, adds all the states without removing the rest of the world, and adds a ton of formable nation's, and a few custom focus trees

It definitely Exist’s Some decent Vibe

Old World Blues is hands down my favorite mod

this is gonna be a good one i just know it

that MacArthur poke was too quick for me that got me for some reason.

Ever play Old world blues? Definitely Our favorite Hoi4 mod of all time. Also try using the commands weather and debug_smooth in console, should speed things up a bit for you. Love your content! Hope you're well and taking it easy!

@pocketmarcy6990

6 ай бұрын

I never unpause in a non-Ironman game without doing debug_smooth helps out a lot, especially in mods like Kaiserredux and TNO

I’m happy u r playing road to 56 again

In the name of the tsar was probably one of my most memorable mod experiences

Mods that I look back on fondly? Millenium dawn has long been one of my favorites.

@darth3911

6 ай бұрын

It was good but the update that changed the map tiles was horrible.

Rt56 and tno are my fav mods. I first got the game about a week after it came out >.

My favorite mod by far is kaiserreich because it set my freinds PC on fire when we tried to play it for the first time.

I saw Zombie mod and I haven't played a strategy game in a while and this got me back in. I played this for 3 months during lockdown and came out of the dank basement and it was spring. And Italy ruled the world.